FDG-PET staging and importance of lymph node SUV in head and neck cancer.

Head Neck Oncol · 2010 · PMC2915991 · PMID 20637102

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.16not close (p > 0.1)

There was a trend for patients with an SUV of the mass ≤8 to have improved local control, but this did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.16) Figure 2 .

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a trend towards significanceno p-value reported

The overall accuracy in determining lymph node status was not statistically significantly better for PET/CT in this study, but there was a trend towards significance.

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